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Internal and external conflicts intersect in a collection of 28 poems
The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War. By Frances Richey. Viking, 84 pp., $21.95.
By Janice Harayda
Not long ago, I went to an American Ballet Theater production of Sleeping Beauty with a companion who called it, with some justification, "a walking ballet." The choreography may delight crowds, but you don't go to this one for aerial special effects such as long sequences of dazzling grand jêtés.
The Warrior is a collection of walking poetry, billed by its publisher as "a memoir in verse." Frances Richey, a yoga teacher, began to write its 28 poems when her son, a West Point graduate and Green Beret, went on the first of his two tours of duty in Iraq. Her book is about the distances – physical and emotional – that war puts between a parent and child.
Richey is earnest and at times pedestrian writer who works mostly in unrhymed, variable-length free verse with the occasional hint of an internal or end-rhyme or both ("and since my son was the only one / who'd never hunted"). In a poem called "The Book of Secrets," she recalls her son's early years: " … Mornings, / when I left him with the sitter, / I had to close my heart, // or else obsess he was crossing / Oak alone." You don't doubt the sincerity of her words, but they read less like poetry than stenography, a literal transcription from life without the alchemy of a great poem. In some of the other poems, no thought seems too obvious to avoid making explicit. "I can't protect him," she tells us in one. "Will he come back?" she wonders in another. " On learning that Iraq can be cold, she reflects, "I was always asking if he was warm enough. / Put a sweater on, I'd say. Your jacket …"
Other poems are less prosaic, and two are particularly good. In "The Aztec Empire" Richey considers artifacts of human sacrifice that she sees in an exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum and links them elegantly to the sacrifice of human lives in Iraq. And in "Kill School" she describes a combat training program that teaches a soldier how to kill by having him rock a rabbit "like a baby in his arms, / faster and faster," then smash its head against a tree. Richey doesn't call her book a collection of antiwar poems, but these two poems speak for themselves. And their direction, like that of the other poems in The Warrior, is no less clear because they walk instead of soaring toward their destination.
Best line: From "Kill School": "The trainer showed him / how to rock the rabbit / / like a baby in his arms, / faster and faster, // until every sinew surrendered / and he smashed its head into a tree."
Worst line: You may need to assume a lotus pose to appreciate: "… Green: / color of the fourth chakra, / Anahata; it means unstuck — / the heart center — / the color of his fatigues."
Editor: Paul Slovak
Published: April 2008 www.francesrichey.com
You may also want to read: Robert Hass's Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for poetry, which has several poems critical of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, including "Bush's War. " www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/
Furthermore: Richey also wrote the poetry collection The Burning Point. She lives in New York City.
Janice Harayda www.janiceharayda.com is a novelist and award-winning critic who has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor of the Plain Dealer and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org.
© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry, President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of state, collected pledges of support Thursday and testified at his confirmation hearing that U.S. foreign policy should be defined by a helping hand as well as military strength.
The Massachusetts Democrat discussed Iran, Syria, climate change and a variety of issues with members of the Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing that recalled an unusual American life — son of a diplomat, Navy lieutenant who volunteered for Vietnam, anti-war protester, five-term senator, unsuccessful nominee for president, and Obama's unofficial envoy.
The nearly four-hour hearing also provided an odd juxtaposition as Kerry, a member of the panel for 28 years and its chairman for the last four, sat alone in the witness chair. At one point, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the incoming chairman who presided, mistakenly referred to Kerry as "Mr. Secretary."
The current secretary, Hillary Rodham Clinton, introduced Kerry, calling him "the right choice." She is stepping down after four years.
The committee is expected to approve Kerry's nomination. A full Senate vote will take place Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
"American foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone," Kerry said in outlining his views. "We cannot allow the extraordinary good we do to save and change lives to be eclipsed entirely by the role we have had to play since Sept. 11, a role that was thrust upon us."
Kerry spoke out strongly for dealing with climate change, providing food and energy security and humanitarian assistance. He also spoke of robust foreign aid, but he insisted that the country must get its fiscal house in order to lead in the world.
"More than ever, foreign policy is economic policy," said Kerry, who described himself as a "recovering member of the supercommittee." That bipartisan panel failed in 2011 in its mandate to come up with a deficit-cutting plan.
Faced with Iran's nuclear program, Kerry said the United State will do what it must to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but he also signaled that diplomacy remains a viable option.
"I repeat here today: Our policy is not containment. It is prevention, and the clock is ticking on our efforts to secure responsible compliance," Kerry said.
The senator said he was hopeful that the U.S. and other nations could make progress on the diplomatic front, but that Tehran needs to relent and agree to intrusive inspections.
"If their program is peaceful, they can prove it," he said.
In an unexpected exchange, Kerry found himself defending Obama's pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to be the next defense secretary against GOP criticism.
Sen. Bob Corker, the senior Republican on the panel, expressed concerns about Hagel's support for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons, a major issue for the Tennessee lawmaker and his home state. The Y-12 nuclear facility is located near Oak Ridge, Tenn., and any cuts or delays in modernization to the nuclear arsenal would have an impact on local jobs.
"I know Chuck Hagel. And I think he is a strong, patriotic former senator, and he will be a strong secretary of defense," Kerry said.
The Massachusetts senator urged lawmakers to be realistic, arguing that an 80 percent cut is an aspiration that would be unlikely in the current climate.
On Syria, Kerry was asked about his outreach to President Bashar Assad, now an international pariah after months of civil war and unending violence against his citizens.
Kerry said there was a moment where Syria reached out to the West but that the moment has long passed.
"History caught up to us. That never happened. And it's now moot, because he has made a set of judgments that are inexcusable, that are reprehensible, and I think is not long for remaining as the head of state in Syria," the senator said. "I think the time is ticking."
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a fierce critic of Obama's policy on Syria, said the status quo is unacceptable with the United Nations estimating that 60,000 have been killed and the heavy influx of refugees in Jordan and Turkey.
After a recent visit to the refugee camps, McCain warned that Syrians frustrated with the U.S. response will be a recruitment target for extremists.
"We can do a lot more without putting American boots on the ground," McCain said. "Otherwise, we will be judged harshly by history."
Kerry said it was imperative to continue discussions with Russia and others in dealing with Syria but that "I don't have optimism."
Menendez noted that Kerry, if confirmed, would be the first senator on the panel in a century to ascend to the Cabinet post. President William McKinley appointed Ohio Sen. John Sherman secretary of state.
The job of the nation's top diplomat would be the realization of a dream for the 69-year-old Kerry, whom Obama passed over in 2008 when he chose Clinton. When Joe Biden became vice president, Kerry replaced the former Delaware senator as chairman of the committee.
Obama nominated Kerry after Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, removed her name from consideration following criticism from Republicans over her initial comments about the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Corker told Kerry, "You've almost lived your entire life for this moment."
The Vietnam War, a long, bitter conflict that took its toll on a generation of draft-age American men, played a prominent role at the hearing.
In his testimony, Kerry alluded to his controversial moment before the committee some 42 years ago, when the decorated Vietnam veteran testified about his opposition to the war and famously asked, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
"Today I can't help but recognize that the world itself then was in many ways simpler, divided as it was along bi-polar, Cold War antagonisms," Kerry said. "Today's world is more complicated than anything we have experienced."
McCain, who also introduced Kerry, said their friendship took root with their work on a committee seeking to resolve the status of POWs and missing in action from Vietnam as well as efforts to ensure normal U.S. relations with Vietnam during President Bill Clinton's administration.
"Helping to establish a relationship with Vietnam that serves American interests and values, rather than one that remained mired in mutual resentment and bitterness, is one of my proudest accomplishments as a senator, and I expect it is one of John's as well," McCain said.
The hearing is the first of three for Obama's national security nominees, and the least controversial. Hagel will face tough questions about his past statements on Israel, Iran, nuclear weapons and defense spending at his confirmation hearing next Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. John Brennan, the president's choice for CIA director, will be quizzed about White House national security leaks and the use of unmanned drones at his hearing next month.


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This spring, Situationist friend, Dan Gilbert published another illuminating and entertaining op-ed, titled "What We Don't Know Makes Us Nervous," (New York Times, May 21, 2009). Here's an excerpt.
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Seventy-six years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took to the inaugural dais and reminded a nation that its recent troubles "concern, thank God, only material things." In the midst of the Depression, he urged Americans to remember that "happiness lies not in the mere possession of money" and to recognize "the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success."
"The only thing we have to fear," he claimed, "is fear itself."
As it turned out, Americans had a great deal more to fear than that, and their innocent belief that money buys happiness was entirely correct. Psychologists and economists now know that although the very rich are no happier than the merely rich, for the other 99 percent of us, happiness is greatly enhanced by a few quaint assets, like shelter, sustenance and security. Those who think the material is immaterial have probably never stood in a breadline.
Money matters and today most of us have less of it, so no one will be surprised by new survey results from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index showing that Americans are smiling less and worrying more than they were a year ago, that happiness is down and sadness is up, that we are getting less sleep and smoking more cigarettes, that depression is on the rise.
But light wallets are not the cause of our heavy hearts. After all, most of us still have more inflation-adjusted dollars than our grandparents had, and they didn't live in an unremitting funk. Middle-class Americans still enjoy more luxury than upper-class Americans enjoyed a century earlier, and the fin de siècle was not an especially gloomy time. Clearly, people can be perfectly happy with less than we had last year and less than we have now.
So if a dearth of dollars isn't making us miserable, then what is? No one knows. I don't mean that no one knows the answer to this question. I mean that the answer to this question is that no one knows — and not knowing is making us sick.
Consider an experiment by researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands who gave subjects a series of 20 electric shocks. Some subjects knew they would receive an intense shock on every trial. Others knew they would receive 17 mild shocks and 3 intense shocks, but they didn't know on which of the 20 trials the intense shocks would come. The results showed that subjects who thought there was a small chance of receiving an intense shock were more afraid — they sweated more profusely, their hearts beat faster — than subjects who knew for sure that they'd receive an intense shock.
That's because people feel worse when something bad might occur than when something bad will occur. Most of us aren't losing sleep and sucking down Marlboros because the Dow is going to fall another thousand points, but because we don't know whether it will fall or not — and human beings find uncertainty more painful than the things they're uncertain about.
But why?
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To find out, click here to read the entire op-ed.
Dan Gilbert will be speaking at Harvard Law School on Monday, October 19. Stay tuned to the Situationist for further details.
For a sample of previous Situationist posts by or about Dan Gilbert and his work, see "Dan Gilbert on the Situation of Psychology," "Something to Smile About," "The Situation of Climate Change," "The Heat is On," "Don't Worry, But Don't Be Happy, Either?," "The Situation of Happiness," "The Unlucky Irish: Celtics Fans and Affective Forecasting," and "Conversation with Dan Gilbert."
To review a collection of Situationist posts about the psychology of happiness, click here.


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TNB: Nine Pitches
An Unrepeated Wall Has Forces We Do Not Understand.
The whole whacked adventure began like this:
"They say there's a cave with treasure. No one who's entered, however, has come out. To get there, you have to pass through the Naguales, which are half
horse, half human."
"Yep. On our first night there, the hillside was covered with lights. The lanterns moved closer so we put our fire out and hid. Fog rolled in, and we slept.
That morning, we walked down the hillside. There were wild horses everywhere."
Naguales! Are they dangerous?
"At the base of the hillside we passed an engraved rock. It read: '¡A todos los gringos que pasan aqui, matan los, ver!'"
What does that mean?
"'To all those gringos that pass here, they kill them, see!' There are also scorpions, rattlesnakes, centipedes and las momias de Monterrey."
"Oh, yeah."
What else?
"Peyote grows everywhere, but you can't see it until the time is right."
How do you know when the time is right?
"It's right when you see it. They also say there is a light in the sky called the Visitor."
In Mexico?
"Yes. Outside of a puebla called Los Remotos. I made half a dozen trips here, to climb El Gavilan. The Hawk. Nine pitches, 5.13b. No pitch is
easier than 5.12. … Leo Houlding went up to try it, but he never made it past the Peyote."
It hasn't had a second ascent?
Jeff Jackson—editor, friend and fountainhead of bizarre narratives—finished telling the El Gavilan story. I'd heard the tale before
and my questions were merely softballs I pitched to "Jefe" to recreate the ebb and flow of this strange fable I'd come to enjoy.
I didn't believe a word of it, but still liked the whimsical tale. The second ascent of a difficult free climb, though, was the most attractive thing to
my friend Dan Mirsky and me.
"Jefe, we want to do your route," Dan said.
"Really? Well, let's go!"
(Having a boss who thinks that going to Mexico is always a good idea is way cool.)
"I hope Luciano is still alive," Jeff said.
"Who's Luciano?" I asked.
"The burro man. You'll need to take donkeys up the hillside. Ten years ago, when I did the route, Luciano was 60. His hands were like lizard skin, and
he loves oranges."
"Do you think Luciano is still alive?" I asked.
"It's not likely," Jeff said. "No."
Though absurd, the trip felt exciting. Clipping bolts at Rifle and running through the grades is fun, but only so fulfilling. Climbers, even sport climbers
like us, are naturally subject to the magnetic laws of adventure, the weird compulsion to do something crazy. And after projecting the same steep faces
for two years, we felt a pull, which became impossible to ignore, toward this Mexican lodestone.
Fate, destiny, luck, magic. These are the names we give the natural forces that can't be reduced by science.
We know that gravity is a function of mass, and light is the fastest thing around, but no one can explain why the worst things sometimes happen to the
best people without sounding at least a little bit artless.
Because these forces aren't easily understood, they've been facetiously dismantled and branded utter nonsense. Humanity has spent the entirety of its efforts
trying to control and shelter its constituents from the uncontrollable and unpredictable. Modern Western society, so far, is its greatest endeavor
toward this end.
Before even reaching Mexico, I was already viewing this trip to El Gavilan as a cure to the banal order of my life's logic.
If I train, I will send. If I use my credit card, I can get anything I want.
El Gavilan brewed wonder. What if there really were Naguales? What if they killed us? Why couldn't magic and fate govern Mexico's most remote
In February 2007, Homero, the happy Mexican cowboy, met Jeff and me at the airport and brought us to his famous campground in El Potrero Chico. We met
up with other friends, including Lynn Hill, her rambunctious four-year-old son Owen (dubbed "El Diablito" by locals), and Boone Speed, a climber and
Dan, with whom I'd trained all winter and also experienced a series of highs and lows in our friendship, had left me a distraught message that began, "Andrew,
I don't know how to say this …" Dan, bouldering in Hueco Tanks, had torn his meniscus. "I don't know if I can climb, but I'm coming anyway."
Dan and I had first met three years prior in Colorado, but we actually grew up in nearby New York towns; we were also born just two days apart in August.
We're both Leos—opinionated, swaggering, center-of-attention-seekers—though Dan is more classically a lion than I am.
Over the past winter, I'd confronted Dan, telling him that he could be a high-maintenance friend (he is). He said that that was because I push people away
(I do). We let it sit, and continued pumping campus boards to the beats of Wu Tang.
When Dan arrived in El Potrero, he seemed able to limp around on his bad knee well enough. His climbing ability had been compromised from the torn meniscus,
but it was really his greatest asset, his confidence, that had sustained a more devastating blow.
"Do you still want to do El Gavilan?" I asked.
"I think so," Dan said. "I guess so."
The longer we stayed, the harder it was to leave. El Potrero is such a dope hang. There's nothing better than sipping an ice-cold Caguama (quart of beer)
after a hot day on the big wall.
People started treating us differently when they heard that we wanted to do El Gavilan. They talked to us as if we were something special (we're
not), and did too much to help us on our way. All this, just because we wanted to climb a route no one ever does.
Still, I couldn't shake the feeling—an intuition, which I'd normally dismiss anywhere else—that we were going to let everyone down.
Homero dropped Dan, Boone and me off in Los Remotos, a windswept plain of fruitless goddamned dirt.
Jeff came along to point out the mile-long wall, La Popa, and its one route, El Gavilan, all the way up the fabled hillside.
The wall looked awesome: tall, steep and water-streaked. The obvious gold and black stone of center-left, Jeff said, was the route. He bid us goodbye and
good luck and left us to the whims of Los Remotos.
Dust settled and the environment turned hauntingly silent. Through the hot haze, a figure slumped over a donkey's back rode our way.
The man dismounted and limped badly. His leg was bent at the shin bone, forming a sick angle. To prevent the lame appendage from dragging, he had rigged
a string so that one end was tied around his knee and the other end was fixed to his belt. He introduced himself: Edgardo.
We asked Edgardo if Luciano, the burro man, was still around. He said yes. We said we wanted to hire burros to transport our water and supplies. He said
Luciano would be here soon.
I felt whacked by déjà vu. I was certain I'd once dreamed of a man with a string holding together a broken leg. Totally bizarre, right? I considered that
Edgardo was a fateful omen that said, "Turn around! Go back! Be gone!"
It turned silent. The wind waved its hands over our necks and the sun began to flatten its light, and eventually, Luciano arrived with his burros.
Luciano was a squat, old creature. His dark Mexican skin looked like the petrified remains of an avocado, and from this fibrous exterior shone two eyes,
bright and blue from cataracts, that watered as he studied me. He embraced my arms with reptilian hands.
Luciano insisted on showing us the home where he had lived for over half a century. By home he meant a hole in the ground: a space dug into a mound beside
a dried-up river. A thatch of straw and wood, now rotten, formed an ersatz roof. There were a fire pit, an exhausted mattress, and a tiny platform
cut into the wall that held a painting of Jesus. The impoverished exist beyond fathom.
Soon, Luciano strapped wicker baskets to two burros, and we loaded them with our gear and water. To move the stubborn beasts, Luciano produced a guttural
belch—Hyaaah!—in a frequency somewhere between human and animal. One burro's neck was cut to shit—the repeated lashing and
choking had gouged deep red canyons into the flesh. The bloodied scars revealed the cruelty that this desolate environment aroused in man.
Luciano left at dusk, and I gave him a spare headlamp to help the old ranchero find his way down. We watched the LED drift slowly to the plains below at
the unfamiliar speed of life itself here in Los Remotos.
"What's he going to do when that thing runs out of batteries?" Boone asked.
"Did you guys see any peyote?" Dan asked.
"Nope. No Naguales either," I said.
"Well, maybe they're coming tonight," Dan said.
Watching the stars, we drank every last drop of alcohol we'd brought for the entire trip.
"Shit," I said, finishing the añejo. "I thought that would last longer."
"What's that?" Dan said. Over distant mountains, a large light-orb vibrated in the sky.
"That's the fucking Visitor!" I said.
The Visitor was whitish-blue, bright and hovering. Suddenly, it jumped across the zenith, stayed there for a bit, vibrating dementedly, and zipped back
to its original spot. We'd never seen anything like this. The fact that we were witnessing something strange for real made us crazy with fear.
Then the Visitor faded and vanished.
"That was different," Boone said finally.
The next morning, we hiked (Dan hobbled) to the base. That we might just onsight the whole climb was a fun idea to which neither Dan nor I were brash enough
to give words. Our plan was for me, the worse free climber, to take the first pitch (5.12a), and Dan to lead the next two (5.12d, 5.13b), and for me
to take the fourth and fifth (5.12d, 5.12a). Depending on our progress, we'd either finish the remaining four pitches, or fix lines and come back the
next day.
We pounded fists, and I started up with the nervous pressure that a fall would fuck the pace for the entire climb. An onsight, however, could be just the
adrenaline shot we needed.
The climb, however, had a different plan for me. The rock was dirty (to be expected), but what freaked me out was the loose slab with bolts in it that
I was on. It was terrifying. I grabbed one crimp that felt as hollow and thin as papier-mâché, and surrendered. "Take."
The otherwise normal act of resting on the rope was the butterfly flutter that put our doomed destiny in motion. On the next pitch, Dan took 10 falls,
not because the moves were necessarily hard, but from ripping choss so hard, you'd swear he was trying to tunnel into the wall.
The crux went better. Dan nearly onsighted the 5.13b stemming corner except he fell on two 5.10 sections when more holds ripped. Mentally, the situation
was poison.
We dogged up to the top of the fifth pitch, and came down. It was late and cold.
We fixed a line to our high-point anchor: completely rusted quarter-inch chain.
Camp was sober that night. The tequila was gone and the climb was underwhelming.
"It got cold up there," I said.
"Yeah, it was cold," Dan said.
We tried not to talk about the situation, and instead ripped on other climbers we think are lame to make ourselves feel better.
"Dude, it's back!" The Visitor returned. It repeated its performance of last night, zipping around the sky, vibrating nervously, shining brightly.
"If it just disappears again, I'm going to flip out," Boone said.
Right as he said that, the Visitor faded and vanished. As promised, Boone flipped out. We laughed. The wind changed; a warm breeze blew from the south.
"You feel that?" Boone asked. "The wind. It'll be warmer tomorrow. Maybe the rest of the route will go better."
It was the first good omen we'd encountered, and as faint as the subtle shift may have been, we latched onto it with all our remaining hope.
Warm and sunny skies had us jugging up 500 feet of free-hanging rope early next morning. I swear to God that as soon as we reached our high point and were
ready to climb, the capricious weather began pummeling us with hard, cold gusts from the north.
"What the hell?" Dan shouted through the chaos. It felt like it was 30 degrees. We shivered, unwilling to admit defeat, but unable to climb the difficult
moves in these conditions.
We considered just getting to the top of the wall at A0 … but we had come to free climb, not hangdog. It really seemed like everything had been working
against us: the weather, Dan's knee, the bad rock, the rusted bolts and, yes, even destiny. We arrived in hell-and-gone Mexico fit enough to repeat
the strangest big-wall free climb in the world, but there is no training for swimming against destiny's current.
For the first time in this story, instead of pushing forward despite intuition, we chose to go back.
Dan said, "I'm glad we came here. You're the only person I would've wanted to do this with," and that's when it was officially over. The comment sounds
cheesy now, but it was appropriate for the moment, even if I didn't feel comfortable letting it penetrate. Unlike usual, I did not push away from my
friend, but slowly rapped down in warming silence.
Boone was at the bottom. It must've looked like we needed consolation because he said, "Seriously, that was a really good effort." We chose to believe
"What now?" I said.
We still had 30 hours until Luciano would come with the burros. Boone pointed at the ground and said, "Look."
"There," he said. I looked closer, and closer still, and sure enough in the gray earth was a gray cactus lying flat against the ground. Peyote, the area's
one naturally growing fruit, the one thing that this godless land could produce, had chosen to reveal itself to us. I looked up, and saw it everywhere.
We decided NOT to try it, of course, because peyote is illegal for United States citizens and we would never do anything that would put our Freedom in
We found a spot on the hillside that sheltered us from the wind, and sat there to watch time pass. Los Remotos looked beautiful on that final night. The
waning sun fell perfectly across the lonely landscape, and the sheer openness of the space read like a book of life's answers.
Boone, Dan and I were experiencing a sensation more important than nabbing a second ascent. Though our climbing failure had been monumental, we were humans
trying to exist in the natural world, simply following our most basic impulse to seek something more—a truth, a sense of meaning, a closer relationship
to each other.
Fate, destiny, magic and luck differ from the laws most of us know and obey. But ultimately, they have the real power. These forces had reduced
us, and in that crushing space, it became clear to me that choice is not about control. Choice is about response.
The Visitor appeared once again. This time we said nothing; just watched the show. It could come every night and no one would ever know what it was. Good.
That night, I dreamt I was a mole, burying deep into my sleeping bag, where I was completely safe from all anxiety.
In El Potrero, we'd returned to a place where anything we wanted was at our fingertips. A day after leaving Los Remotos, we were on a budget airline that,
for $50, shot us to the beaches of Zihuatenejo. The instantaneousness of our transformation seemed at odds with all the lessons of Los Remotos.
No matter. Over the next week, we surfed, ate raw fish cured with limejuice and drank beer all day. It was a break from climbing and its inherent pressure
to succeed. Dan and I rested in silence on the beach, watching waves, in their most warm and pleasant form, roll in from the cold, distant violence
of Antarctica. We didn't speak. The ocean was loud and did all the talking needed. Life was totally comfortable.
Though Andrew Bisharat vowed he'd never return to Los Remotos, a year and a half later, he is reconsidering.


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Country-Style Ribs with Rhubarb Barbecue Sauce...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite adapted from Better Homes and Gardens
4 pounds country-style ribs, cut into 4 to 6-inch pieces
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1 large onion, thinly sliced
1 cup chopped fresh or frozen rhubarb
2/3 cup water
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 teaspoon canola oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1 cup ketchup
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1-1/2 teaspoons hot pepper sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
1) Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
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LOWELL — Several months after questions were raised about the Lowell Housing Authority's possible improper handling of asbestos during a major renovation project, the agency has agreed to pay for and promote the opportunity for its maintenance employees to get tested for asbestos poisoning.
LHA Executive Director Gary Wallace said Wednesday he has consented to the request put forth by the union representing the maintenance employees because he wants to allay any concerns LHA workers may have about exposure to asbestos.
"It makes sense for some of the older people who might have worries," Wallace told The Sun. "We also want to put the issue to rest."
Angelo Karabatsos, president of the union representing the LHA's maintenance workers, said the idea of employees receiving asbestos testing first emerged last year after the LHA decided to bring on a environmental consultant to determine how much asbestos is present at all of its major developments.
The decision to hire a consultant came in the months following the City Council's call for an investigation into whether asbestos was handled improperly during the LHA's renovations at North Common Village from 2008 to 2011. The Inspector General's Office released a report in October saying there was no evidence asbestos was removed during the project, but two other state agencies determined that proper testing was not done prior to the work.
Also, the LHA's consultant found asbestos in the second layer of floor tile and associated mastic of the only North Common unit it tested over the summer.
Karabatsos said Wednesday he put forward the testing proposal so his members who want the testing because of concerns have access to it. He is strongly encouraging his members who have been at the LHA the longest to get tested because many of the old buildings at the LHA used to be full of asbestos and some still remains.
"The guys who have been there many years would be wise to get tested to put their minds at ease," Karabatsos said. "There is no doubt in my mind some of them were interacting with asbestos for years."
Karabatsos praised the LHA for agreeing to set a specific date, time and place for the testing and make sure LHA employees are aware of it.
Workers can also get tested for unhealthy exposure to lead, added Karabatsos. He estimates close to 50 LHA employees would be eligible to receive the testing.
"The housing authority is living up to their responsibility to their workers," Karabatsos said.
Both Wallace and Karabatsos said they expect the testing to be scheduled for some time in the coming weeks.
The health consequences for exposure to asbestos fibers and lead paint can be very severe.
Exposure to asbestos fibers can lead to tissue scarring, lung diseases and mesothelioma.
Meanwhile, unhealthy exposure to lead can cause lead poisoning, which has a variety of symptoms, including a decline in mental functioning.
Also Wednesday, the LHA's board of commissioners took action to prevent exposure to asbestos in one place it was recently identified: the crawl spaces of two developments where the steam pipes go underground from one building to the next.
The board voted 3-0 to award Dec-Tam Corp. of North Reading a $57,600 contract to seal the pipe openings at North Common Village and the George Flanagan Development.
The board members present for the meeting were Chairwoman Kristin Ross-Sitcawich, Michael Zaim and Walter "Buddy" Flynn.
The consultant that is overseeing the asbestos survey project is Cardno ATC of Woburn.
David Mitchell, project manager for the Cardno ATC's LHA work, told the board that the asbestos surveying of the LHA's 10 major developments is 80 percent complete.
He praised the LHA for seeing it through.
"You are doing a great job seeking data for every site and getting training for the staff," he said. "You are really going above and beyond what most people do."
Mitchell also reported to the board that some renovated units at North Common Village had traces of asbestos in their residual mastic.
Mastic is an adhesive often made of asbestos.
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Bombardier Presents its New OMNEO Double-deck Platform in France: the Regio 2N
September 25, 2013 in Electric Vehicles, EV News, Trains
- With the BOMBARDIER OMNEO double-deck train, Bombardier adds a new product platform to its EMU double-deck portfolio
- A multi-type platform to meet a wide range of needs: from high capacity suburban to a more comfortable intercity, while integrating regional travel
- The 129 double-deck trains ordered will operate in the Regions of Aquitaine, Brittany, Centre, Nord-Pas de Calais, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes
Rail technology leader Bombardier Transportation today presented the first OMNEO train to the vice presidents for transportation of various French regions and Guillaume Pepy, Chief Executive Officer of SNCF, at Bombardier's site in Crespin in Northern France. This new double-deck train, named Regio 2N by the French regions, is wider than conventional EMUs. It offers a new level of passenger comfort through more onboard space, maximum seating, large access platforms with two wide doors, and quiet cars for long journeys. The Regio 2N platform is available in various configurations, from six to 10 cars, with a total length of between 81 m and 135 m. It is capable of travelling at speeds of between 160 km/h and 200 km/h.
Representatives of the Transport Ministry and the Ministry of Industrial Renewal were also present, as well as Lutz Bertling, President of Bombardier Transportation.
Bombardier has built nine test trains to allow the thousands of tests required for homologation to be conducted simultaneously. The fully-fitted Regio 2N train on show is the eighth of these special trains. While waiting for certification, several trains will run test journeys from January 2014 to allow SNCF's staff to operate them and to check operational reliability before full commissioning.
At Bombardier's site near Valenciennes, the Regio 2N project teams are ready to ensure production and delivery of all 129 trains within only two years.
To date, the regions Aquitaine, Brittany, Centre, Nord-Pas de Calais, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes have placed firm orders for 129 Regio 2N trains. The contract allows for a maximum of 860 trains.
"The increasing use of regional trains in France reflects the Regions' successful efforts to facilitate sustainable and comfortable mobility of their populations," said Lutz Bertling, President of Bombardier Transportation. "This train is the right choice to meet the future needs of regional transportation not only because of its large capacity, passenger comfort and high performance but also thanks to the many configurations available, such as the InterCity V200 version. Bombardier's Crespin teams have met an outstanding technical challenge by delivering a completely new industrial product as complex as this one, and in such a short time-frame."
OMNEO is the latest product of the Bombardier double-deck EMU portfolio. Offering high capacity in densely populated areas and fast speed on intercity rail links, double-deck trains are central to an eco-friendly and comfortable rail transportation, moving millions of people every day. Bombardier's portfolio is well positioned to meet the demand of market growth in this sector. UNIFE research shows that demand for regional trains should remain high, reaching 4,000 cars per year in the period 2014 to 2016. France, Germany and the UK are forecast to represent more than half of the world's regional train market. In the regional segment, the share of double-deck trains is increasing due to the constant need for increased capacity.
About Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology, offers the broadest portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility. BOMBARDIER ECO4 technologies – built on the four cornerstones of energy, efficiency, economy and ecology – conserve energy, protect the environment and help to improve total train performance for operators and passengers. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and has a very diverse customer base with products or services in more than 60 countries. It has an installed base of over 100,000 vehicles worldwide.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world's only manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us a global leader in transportation.
Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes. In the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, we posted revenues of $16.8 billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
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You just got a traffic ticket. Now what? Hire a Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorney? There are lots of reasons to do so. Hi, I'm speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach. Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorneys at the Law Office of Todd E. Tkach, P.C. represent people who have received traffic citations, in Tarrant County and almost every jurisdiction throughout the State of Texas. Our goal is to have your ticket dismissed! As licensed speeding ticket attorneys, we know that the Texas Transportation Code and the Texas Rules of Criminal Procedure contain hundreds of laws dealing specifically and solely with traffic citations. Additionally, each city, town and municipality has its' own unique procedures and fines regarding traffic tickets. Don't go-it-alone! Call the Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorneys with the Law Office of Todd E. Tkach now to talk with one of our courteous staff members, who can explain the traffic citation process, answer any questions you may have, and ultimately resolve your traffic ticket case.
With the speeding ticket attorneys of Todd E. Tkach, P.C. on your side, your worries are over. We'll immediately send a notice of representation to the court, enter a plea of not guilty on your behalf and set your traffic ticket or speeding ticket case for a court hearing. We'll then promptly notify you of your court date and clearly discuss with you the entire procedure we'll take to pursue a dismissal of your traffic ticket case or a negotiated plea agreement in your favor. Of course, a Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorney with our office will be with you on the date of your court hearing to fight for a dismissal of the charges against you. If your speeding or traffic ticket is not dismissed, we'll aggressively negotiate for a favorable plea agreement with the prosecutor or take your case to trial.
Why Are Some Cases in Justice of the Peace (JP) Courts in Jeff Davis County?
All traffic tickets are criminal violations and are classified in Texas as Class "C" misdemeanors. After a law enforcement officer issues a traffic ticket, the information from the traffic stop is forwarded to a court to begin the procedure against whom the ticket was issued. In Texas, all traffic ticket cases are filed in either a Municipal Court or a Justice of the Peace (JP) Court in the county where the ticket was issued. The Court into which the case is filed is determined by the type of law enforcement officer who issued the citation. If the ticket was issued by a police officer of a particular city or municipality, it will be filed in that city's municipal court. If issued by a county police officer, such as a Constable, Sheriff or Texas State Trooper, it will be filed in one of the Justice of the Peace (JP) Courts in that county.
We Serve All Justice of the Peace (JP) Courts in Jeff Davis County
All Texas counties have at least one Justice of the Peace (JP) Court and more-populated counties can have many more. We serve all JP Courts in Jeff Davis County
What Happens If I Don't Hire a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney?
What you don't know can hurt you!
Warrants for Your Arrest Without a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney
After you receive a traffic ticket, you only have a few days to either pay the ticket or set it for a court hearing. If you fail to do either, a warrant for your arrest will be issued. In that event, you cannot resolve that traffic ticket with the court unless and until you do one of the following two things: 1) pay the maximum fine amount for the ticket; or 2) post a cash bond in an amount equal to the maximum fine amount plus court costs! Neither of those options is advisable. If you simply pay the ticket, not only are you paying the highest fine possible for that particular ticket, but you are convicted of the charge, which means it will go on your driving record. Posting a cash bond can also be problematic. The amount of the cash bond will be equal to the maximum possible fine for that ticket, plus an additional amount for court costs. The cash necessary for that bond will be several hundred dollars. The Court holds your cash until you resolve your traffic ticket, which could take several months.
Let me suggest an alternative. Keep your cash and protect your driving record! For a nominal fee, hire speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach to post an attorney bond, lift the warrant and go to court to fight for a dismissal of the traffic ticket. You don't even have to go to court, unless you want to. Don't wait. Call speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach now at 214-999-0595. Our team of Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorneys and staff have the experience, knowledge and skills to aggressively represent you to make sure that your rights are protected.
Avoid Paying Fines or Get Fine Reductions With a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney
Simply paying your fine for a traffic ticket means that you agree that you are "guilty" of the charge. If you are guilty, you must pay a monetary fine. Depending on the traffic ticket involved, the fine could be several hundred dollars. Hiring speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach to fight your traffic ticket could result in a dismissal of the charges. In that event, you don't have to pay any fine!! Even if we can't get the charge completely dismissed, we'll aggressive negotiate with the prosecutor to reduce the fine amount and keep the charge off your record.
Avoid Points on Your Driving Record With a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney
The State of Texas has a Point System that affects your right to hold and maintain a Texas driver's license. You are charged Points against your driving record if you are convicted of certain traffic tickets. The number of Points charged varies depending on the type of traffic ticket you are given, but ranges from one (1) to six (6) points. A Texas driver gets 2 points for most traffic violation convictions (3 points if a crash is involved). "Points" remain on a driver's record for 3 years. Accumulating points on your driving record can result in huge "surcharges" assessed by the Texas Department of Public Safety and a possible driver's license suspension. If that happens, you cannot legally drive an automobile in Texas. Let speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach represent you on your traffic tickets and protect your driver's license.
Avoid Paying Surcharges With a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney
Convictions of certain traffic citations can cost you "surcharges" imposed by the Texas Department of Public Safety. A yearly $100 surcharge is assessed for 6 Points on your driving record; with another $25 surcharge for each additional point. The surcharge continues to be assessed as long as the Points total 6 or more. Additionally, convictions for "no insurance" and "driving while license invalid" mandate a $750.00 surcharge each! Don't risk being convicted of these traffic tickets. Call speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach now! We'll fight for a dismissal of these traffic tickets and the surcharges that accompany them. If we can't obtain an outright dismissal, we'll fight to get a dismissal through plea negotiations and keep the charges off your driving record.
Stop Insurance Rate Increases With a Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney
Convictions of traffic tickets can raise your automobile insurance rates. Many automobile insurance companies check your driving record before agreeing to insure you or renew your automobile insurance. Having "convictions" for traffic or speeding tickets on your driving record can cost you a lot of money. Your automobile insurance company may increase your insurance rates when you apply for new insurance or for a renewal of your existing insurance. Avoid paying increased insurance rates! Call speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach now to protect your driving record.
Do I Have to Be in Court With My Jeff Davis County Speeding Ticket Attorney?
In most cases, it is not necessary for you to be present with your Jeff Davis County speeding ticket attorney on the day of your traffic ticket hearing. Although it can help us get a dismissal and/or to negotiate a more favorable plea agreement, your presence is usually not necessary. If you can't be in court on the day of your hearing either because of prior commitments, work, being out of the state, or you just don't want to take the time, no problem! Todd E. Tkach can make the court appearance for you. Even if you're not there, speeding ticket attorney Todd E. Tkach will fight to have your traffic ticket dismissed outright! If we can't get an outright dismissal, we'll aggressively negotiate to get the traffic ticket dismissed within a few months in the future to keep the citation off your driving record.
Attorney Representation for All Class C Misdemeanors
All traffic tickets, speeding tickets,code violations and other municipal tickets are "Class C" misdemeanors, according to the laws of the State of Texas. The attorneys with Todd E. Tkach, P.C. handle all types of Class "C" misdemeanors, as well as all other Penal Code violations. All Class C misdemeanors in the State of Texas are adjudicated in Municipal Courts and Justice of the Peace Courts. Although these are the lowest level of criminal courts in the State, some Class C misdemeanors can have significant and long-term effects. Attorney representation can become very important. For example, multiple convictions for disorderly conduct can be enhanced to Class B or Class A misdemeanors, which carry jail time in their range of punishment. A conviction for a charge of Class C assault/family violence can be enhanced and can prohibit you from owning or possessing a firearm. Don't "go-it-alone." The long-term effects can be devastating. Call attorney Todd E. Tkach to make sure your rights are protected!
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After a photographer shot the chilling photo of a man stranded on subway tracks many have asked why he used his flash to try and alert the train, instead of jumping to his rescue.
Chad Lindsey did just that. In 2009 Lindsey saw a man fall onto the subway tracks and jumped down to save him.
Chad Lindsey describes himself as a trained dancer and actor, so when the man fell he jumped down to help him because he was 'trained to catch someone when they fall,' and that this instance is different because this was a photographer, trained to take pictures, "its not our job to judge his actions, its our job to control our own."
He explains how quickly you need to act in that moment: "People have different reflexes and you don't know what they are until you are tested." Lindsey points out, "We don't know what happened, that is a still shot, how do you know how far away he was?"
Lindsey notes that our culture now is not always focused on experiencing these kinds of moments as they happen. He says, "There were lots of people on that platform, and there were lots of people on the platform when I was in the same situation, and a lot of them backed up against the wall or ran for the station door, and our culture is obsessed with proving we were there…" He says, "we need to decide as Americans, as human beings, whether we are going to be in a moment, or whether we are going to take a picture of it. "
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Filed under: subway hero • subway tragedy
I would have froze. Not knowing whats going on, not sure what I should do, expecting to get yelled at or in some big trouble for acting.
AS for safety to protect the innocent or a suspect criminal as death takes all, why can't the transportaiton community deivise or retrofit these trains with sensor techonlogy engineered in the same fashion for back up and or front end protection for automotive vehicles. I mean really this is an win-win situation for keeping folks employes manufacturing these type of retofits if desgined to fit train industry as well it saves lives on the tracks, not just in subways, but for vehicles stuck on r/r crossings. I believe someone or some group needs to pay attention the real danger here, and it is nto the train conductors fault wither, but no one is exmpt for not paying attention. If coming into a station very fast is the norm, is not thatspeed if to fast only for express trains and for inner rails bypassing stations. Shouldn't there by a slow down zone just as in school zones for speed. Let us consider a revisit to safety here, and not arrogance on the expense it takes to protect common life. On the other side of the coin , there is the incidence of not being in a good frame of mind or just plain old common sense in " I canbeat the rain philosophy, but in this case, a man's life was jeopardized pre meditated or not and that endangered his life and finally was a fatal situation. This situation as it was awkward for the photogrpaher was all in check when he was witness for further harm from suspect alleged to push man in and onto the tracks. Please review the importance here on future safety.
Chad Lindsey – such a nice person! Was a pleasure listening to him answer the questions with good sense of perspective on life – he said it so well. It's not our job to judge "Reflexes, he's a trained photographer". There were lots of other folks on the platform closer who could possibly have helped. NYC subway system should post diagrams and/or provide information to it's riders about what to do if they fall off the track, or are shoved off by crazies. Do most people know what the 3rd rail looks like – I don't!
Well I don't know how the Q train station or platforms look like because every station is not the same some of them only has one platform and train's come on either side but for example the A/C is a brooklyn to Manhattan train and 2 of the stops in Brooklyn I can tell you is the Stop at Euclid Ave and another is Broadway Junction the have four platforms the 3rd rail is in the middle of the platforms and is the biggest track there is and that's just as deadly as getting hit by a train but to
explain the 3rd rail is like this
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___________________2nd rail
____________________1st rail
or you can just goggle nyc subway track and the select images and look at the 4th photo and you'll see the 3rd rail to the right
I just want to say that I agree entirely. I, like everyone else I am sure, hope to do the right thing when the moment comes, but it is nearly impossible to say that with certainty. No-one really waits for that "moment" when waiting for the train. Most are preoccupied with their smartphones, itunes, or just general concerns and thoughts of the day, so when it does happen, it may not be so surprising that some fall short of the ideal.
I caught the interview about the subway incident and its dangers and i thought it to be helpful to realize that there is 'space' in the NYC subway system by the platform downunder away from the tracks and even by wall near the third rail, though avoiding the 3rd rail is paramount, but yes there is space off from the track towards the underneath space near the 'track' as i was informed when i worked briefly for the Transit Authority back in '84 as an administrative aide with the police, which has merged with regular NYPD in the 90's . no one seems to be knowledgeable about the space down on the track area towards the wall, epsecially on platform side . really. check it out with authorities . usually the problem is that the person falling has been injured or is unconcious and handling that body is difficult . rememver the incident years back when a person helped a fallen guy by lying on top of him as the train passed over them ! but yes NYC subway system unlike many others does have 'safety' space down by the tracks . check it out !!
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A while back, when we decided to take on the project of cutting down our 70-foot tall (plus or minus) honey locust tree in the back yard, I began doing research on what in the world we'd do with all the wood. As you may know, a lot of the smaller branches have become mulch for the garden. But someone from the Take Back Urban-Homesteading(s) community on Facebook suggested to me to build a 'hugelkultur.' A hoogle-whater? So, of course I Googled it.
I'll try to save you some time. A hugelkultur (pronounced "hoogle-culture" – I think), is basically a raised bed in which wood or other carbon-rich materials is buried. Some people lay logs directly on the ground, use a tractor to dump a pile of dirt on it and then start planting on their new, hill-shaped bed. (I like the info in this link).
The advantages of this method of gardening is that the wood, as it rots, acts as a sponge, making it so you don't have to water much. Additionally, it releases nutrients over time into the soil, making it so you don't need to fertilize. And, as it rots, it leaves plenty of air space in the soil, so you don't need to till. Basically, it is a no-maintenance, self-composting bed. The first year or two, especially with green wood like ours, it will actually draw nitrogen from the soil in order to start decomposition. But thereafter, it will supposedly do nothing but give back.
Sounds like a good plan to us! So we decided to give it a try in the boys' backyard garden bed. We don't have lots of spare topsoil just lying around everywhere, nor the desire to buy any, so we thought it would be a better use of what we do have to dig down into the ground and bury the wood with our own topsoil and subsoil.
We dug down a good 12-14 inches. Then we laid in some of the branches that were too thick to go through the wood chipper. Then we buried them. This left us with basically an instant raised bed, as promised. We used some of the bigger, straighter limbs from the tree to make an edging (not yet complete). Otherwise the boys would truck that dirt all over the back yard before anything could be planted there.
Fortunately for us, we have plenty of nitrogen-rich compost, thanks to the chickens. We mixed a bit of that in to compensate for the initial anticipated nitrogen loss/Tonka truck compaction. Henry wants carrots, tomatoes and watermelon in his bed this year. We'll keep track and let you know how it goes!
Does anyone out there have experience with a hugelkultur? What about deterrents for little boys and their ride-on toys? 😉


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Battlefield 2 Patch 1.50 Dated, Detailed
As well as bringing one new map, changes, fixes and balance tweaks, Patch 1.50--in public beta since April--will make BF2's previously-$10 booster packs 'Euro Forces' and 'Armored Fury' free, granting their maps, vehicles and weapons to all players.
We'll have the 2GB patch up for you on FileShack as soon as it's released, but for now here's the patch's list of changes. Thanks to Shacker onji for the tip.
Gameplay Tweaks
- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
- Added Euro Force and Armored Fury as free to play content for all Battlefield 2 players.
- Added Widescreen support
- Allowed BF2.exe to use more than 2Gb RAM
- Added support for the Novint Falcon controller (www.novint.com).
Bug Fixes
- Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced.
- AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
- Added checks to prevent "runway grieving".
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
- Occasional connection drops after being on a server a couple of minutes - Fixed
- Prevented use of mouse wheel to provide speed boost to vehicles
- Prevented use of mouse wheel to exploit parachutes
- Players can now pass claymores by going prone
- Update the HUD on TV Guided missiles to increase visibility on maps like Dragon Valley
- Added Battlefield 2142 style prone deviation (going prone will now cause reduced accuracy for a brief period)
- Fixed the issue where picking up a players kit would cause CTD
- Updated BF2OpenAL.dll from version 220.127.116.11 to version 22.214.171.124
- Updated ch_gas_station collision mesh on Dragon Valley to be consistent with other gas station buildings
- Fixed the issue where MEC artillery piece on Operation Clean Sweep changes to the USMC's control when they capture the Airfield flag
- Updated the Challenger2 HUD to show the correct icon instead of the M1A2 HUD icon
- Changed a PLA FAV to MEC FAV on Road to Jalalabad
- Tweaked the artillery respawn time on Dragon Valley for to 360 seconds as other artillery uses
- Included a delay after weapon switch for the Bizon (PP-19) to 0.666
- Updated the F35B's lock delay to 1 second instead of 1.5 seconds to match other aircraft
- Changed the Humvee camo on Taraba Quarry to be the correct design
- Increased the splash damage of the UH-60 (Black Hawk) guns from 0.25 to 1.5
- Updated the G36E HUD to react the same as other weapons during sprint
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Funding a dream Rochester official helps start scholarship in memory of daughter
ROCHESTER — A scholarship is being made available solely to Bud Carlson Academy students thanks to a collaborative effort between the family of Deputy City Manager Karen Pollard and the Rochester Rotary Club.
The scholarship is in memory of Pollard's daughter Elaine, who graduated from Bud Carlson Academy in 2010 and passed away from cancer in November 2012.
"She had already had a full year of treatment for cancer and after that year was finished, she had the summer to recover," Pollard said. "We knew she couldn't go back to high school, that she wouldn't have the stamina for a whole day of school. And because she was out of school for a year, she was behind, so she went to Bud Carlson. The staff and the other kids were so wonderful, because she wasn't strong when she first went to school. But she got stronger and was able to graduate."
Bud Carlson Academy offers alternative learning programs for Rochester area high school students.
"When her cancer came back, we focused more on treatment and quality of life so she could get to do the things she wanted to do. She was looking forward to college. Up until a few months before she passed, she talked about it," Pollard noted, adding that Bud Carlson Academy was at least partially responsible for that educational drive.
Pollard said she and her family tried to find a way "to make that dream come true for other kids." She noted that many students at Bud Carlson Academy have "some pretty tough stories," but that they're motivated to get a diploma. She also praised Bud Carlson Director Kathy Dubois, for her ability in helping the kids.
Pollard's close connection with Rochester Rotary Club made for a quick partnership. Members of Rochester Rotary, according to Pollard, thought the scholarship was a "wonderful idea." The organization is a 503(c)(3) nonprofit and agreed to accept donations until the Pollard family can set up the scholarship as its own nonprofit. The Rotary also awards several scholarships each year.
Family and friends gathered Saturday at Granite Steak and Grill on Route 11 in Rochester for a celebration of Elaine Pollard's Life.
"We're going to share Elaine's story, talk about what she went through in the last five years," Pollard said earlier in the week. "Bud Carlson will have a table for anyone who doesn't know what their mission is. It has changed. It's not the alternative school that some people have in their heads."
Over $2,000 has been collected so far and the scholarship is slated to be awarded around June this year, to be followed annually, afterward. The decision about who will receive the scholarship will not be made via the traditional application process, but instead based on students' senior projects.
Donations can be made through the Rotary and are 100 percent tax deductible. Send checks or money orders to Rochester Rotary Charities, PO Box 779, Rochester NH 03866-0779 and write Pollard Scholarship in the comment section.


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